spherical excess

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noun Mathematics.

the difference between the sum of the angles of a spherical triangle and two right angles.

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Victor was proud of his achievement, and went about recommending it and urging every one to partake of it to excess.
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The authorization borne by him was very extraordinary and had a great excess of the ordinary warrants.
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To talk of an excess of labor, or an inability to employ it, in such a country as Ireland, is to insult the general understanding.
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All applications, including therein any on which action may have been deferred because in excess of the aforesaid 10 per cent.
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